Beauty poems
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The Frost of Death was on the Pane --
© Emily Dickinson
The Frost of Death was on the Pane --
"Secure your Flower" said he.
Like Sailors fighting with a Leak
We fought Mortality.
The Bird her punctual music brings
© Emily Dickinson
The Bird her punctual music brings
And lays it in its place --
Its place is in the Human Heart
And in the Heavenly Grace --
So gay a Flower
© Emily Dickinson
So gay a Flower
Bereaves the Mind
As if it were a Woe --
Is Beauty an Affliction -- then?
Tradition ought to know --
Pink -- small -- and punctual --
© Emily Dickinson
Pink -- small -- and punctual --
Aromatic -- low --
Covert -- in April --
Candid -- in May --
Must be a Woe --
© Emily Dickinson
Must be a Woe --
A loss or so --
To bend the eye
Best Beauty's way --
Fitter to see Him, I may be
© Emily Dickinson
Fitter to see Him, I may be
For the long Hindrance -- Grace -- to Me --
With Summers, and with Winters, grow,
Some passing Year -- A trait bestow
Estranged from Beauty -- none can be --
© Emily Dickinson
Estranged from Beauty -- none can be --
For Beauty is Infinity --
And power to be finite ceased
Before Identity was leased.
But little Carmine hath her face --
© Emily Dickinson
But little Carmine hath her face --
Of Emerald scant -- her Gown --
Her Beauty -- is the love she doth --
Itself -- exhibit -- Mine --
Beauty crowds me till I die
© Emily Dickinson
Beauty crowds me till I die
Beauty mercy have on me
But if I expire today
Let it be in sight of thee --
Beauty -- be not caused -- It Is --
© Emily Dickinson
Beauty -- be not caused -- It Is --
Chase it, and it ceases --
Chase it not, and it abides --
The Definition of Beauty is
© Emily Dickinson
The Definition of Beauty is
That Definition is none --
Of Heaven, easing Analysis,
Since Heaven and He are one.
The earth has many keys,
© Emily Dickinson
The earth has many keys,
Where melody is not
Is the unknown peninsula.
Beauty is nature's fact.
I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
© Emily Dickinson
I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining room --
Values '67
© Spike Milligan
Pass by citizen
don't look left or right
Keep those drip dry eyes straight ahead
A tree? Chop it down- it's a danger
Halved
© Spike Milligan
The essence of true beauty
Lingers in all-encompassing rainbows
Of your joy and laughter
Caesarion
© Constantine Cavafy
When I had managed to verify the era
I would have put the book away, had not a small
and insignificant mention of king Caesarion
immediately attracted my attention.....
Picture Of A 23-Year-Old Youth Painted By His Friend Of The Same Age, An Amature
© Constantine Cavafy
He finished the painting yesterday noon. Now
he studies it in detail. He has painted him in a
gray unbuttoned coat, a deep gray; without
any vest or any tie. With a rose-colored shirt;
He Came To Read
© Constantine Cavafy
He came to read. Two or three books
are open; historians and poets.
But he only read for ten minutes,
and gave them up. He is dozing
Alexandrian Kings
© Constantine Cavafy
The Alexandrians were gathered
to see Cleopatra's children,
Caesarion, and his little brothers,
Alexander and Ptolemy, whom for the first
According To The Formulas Of Ancient Grecosyrian Magi
© Constantine Cavafy
"What distillate prepared according
to the formulas of ancient Grecosyrian magi
which, in bringing back these things,
can also bring back our little room."
